Saturday, March 5, 2011

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

L.A. Times - Entertainment News

Hollywood Headlines: a crazy week in review

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 07:01 PM PST


Charlie Sheen continues his media blitz, Christina Aguilera gets arrested and fired and Kim Kardashian debuts her new single,

Charlie Sheen continues his media blitz, Christina Aguilera gets arrested and fired and Kim Kardashian debuts her new single,


'For Colored Girls' wins for best film at NAACP Image Awards

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 07:39 PM PST

TV review: 'Taking on Tyson'

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Animal Planet's 'Taking on Tyson' shows Mike Tyson's softer side and tells a tale of redemption.

Oh, the paths a life may take. Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight champion, is now the star of "Taking on Tyson," a new Animal Planet series premiering Sunday that plays off his lifelong love of pigeons. He has raised them since he was a kid, in humble coops and grand; now, for the purposes of this series at least, he wants to race them. (The first punch he ever threw, he says here, and has said before, was at someone who stole and killed one of his birds — "It seemed like the right thing to do.") It's a great subject with a great setting — the rooftops of urban New Jersey and New York — but it is repeatedly entangled in and dragged to earth by the hectic conventions of reality television.


For-profit or nonprofit, investigative reporting costs

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Traditional media are embracing partnerships with nonprofits for in-depth projects, but the work still takes money. It's worth pitching in.

Traditional media are embracing partnerships with nonprofits for in-depth projects, but the work still takes money. It's worth pitching in.


Photos: NAACP Image Awards

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:38 PM PST


Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson and more of Hollywood's hottest stars hit the NAACP Image Awards red carpet.


Pop music spring preview: Notable concerts and albums in the coming weeks

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:34 PM PST


Shows include Lykke Li and Lady Gaga; the Kills and Paul Simon are among the acts planning album releases

Shows include Lykke Li and Lady Gaga; the Kills and Paul Simon are among the acts planning album releases


Critical Mass: 'Rango'

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 05:37 PM PST


If the positive reviews have anything in common, it's the critics' sheer disbelief that a film like this is as fun as it is.


'Mars Needs Moms': How a picture book got the Hollywood treatment

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Author-cartoonist Berkeley Breathed describes how 'Mars Needs Moms' grew from a picture book to a Hollywood movie, with lots of worries about how his plot-driven progeny would change.

Author-cartoonist Berkeley Breathed describes how 'Mars Needs Moms' grew from a picture book to a Hollywood movie, with lots of worries about how his plot-driven progeny would change.


At Larry Edmunds Bookshop, movie memories have a long shelf life

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The bookstore is a throwback among the tourist stops on Hollywood Boulevard with its trove of movie books, posters, photos and other memorabilia.

The bookstore is a throwback among the tourist stops on Hollywood Boulevard with its trove of movie books, posters, photos and other memorabilia.


Does Hollywood discriminate against young black actors?

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:34 PM PST


The best known of the next generation -- say, Chiwetel Eijofor and Anthony Mackie -- are not nearly as popular in their 30s as the previous group was at that age.

The best known of the next generation -- say, Chiwetel Eijofor and Anthony Mackie -- are not nearly as popular in their 30s as the previous group was at that age.


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